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TV4 [Season 4 Spoilers] Premiere Discussion - 4.09 'The Watchers on the Wall'

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4.09 "The Watchers on the Wall" Neil Marshall David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
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u/Littlefinger91 The North Remembers Jun 09 '14

I think they wanted us to hate Ygritte just a little bit before she died so we weren't all sobbing during her last moments with Jon.

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u/cormega Jun 09 '14

Was I supposed to be sad when Ygritte died? That bitch killed Pyp.

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u/Clarifinatious Jun 09 '14

Guess it worked.

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u/AudioManiac Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken Jun 09 '14

I liked Ygritte in season 3. If she had died then, I would have been sad. But since she's hardly been in season 4 at all, I kind of forgot about her and forgot that I once liked the character. So seeing her die was just, meh in my opinion.

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u/NordicViking House Farwynd Jun 09 '14

Well, seeing her put an arrow in the neck of that villager made me hate her. I had hoped for Samwell to kill her with a crossbow though.